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Proquest Performing Arts Collections

Access a diverse collection of music, dance and theatre content, covering hundreds of genres and a wide range of content types including audio drama from L.A. Theater Works, Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries, and a video collection with films from The Royal Shakespeare company, Broadway and The National Theatre.

Audio Drama: The L.A. Theatre Works Collection contains 430 nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first century plays performed by leading actors from around the world, recorded specifically for online listening.
Music Online: Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries provides a virtual encyclopedia of unique American folk, blues, soul, jazz, and protest songs, as well as a broad range of world music through partnership with Smithsonian Folkways Recordings.

Video Collections includes content such as newsreels, historical documentaries, recordings of live performances and interviews.

This resource is supported in whole or in part by funding provided by the State of California, administered by the California State Library.

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